When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“That night you lay in bed, awake, and listened to the ambulances tear down our street. The heat of your face could… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Stared at the toothpick-thin blackgirl who worked at the Friendly's, whom he was in love with but with whom he would never… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“He whistles. Que viva Colombia. Hands you back the Book. You really should write the cheater's guide to love. You think? I… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren’t supposed to go.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
